Elbow mitt



Patented Mar. 17, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE ADELE HORWIIZ, OE LOS .ANG-ELES, CALIFORNIA ELBOW MITT Application filed June 13, 1927, Serial No. 198,500. Renewed January 16, 1931.

This invention relates to devices used in through which alace, or strip, or ribbon may training a baby against finger sucking, nail be drawn as indicated. biting, picking at sores, ears, eyes, nose, and Fig. is a fragmentary cross section in other ways training a baby for the sake of through a sleeve with a stifiening means dis 5 health. posed over the outside,'and a lace, or ribbon, 5

One of the objects of this invention is to or band disposed through perforations prevent a baby from bending its arms withwhereby the stiflening means is laced to the out restraining the movements of its hands outside of the shirt sleeve. in useful plays. Fig. 6 is a. fragmentary cross section 10 Another object is to provide a sanitary through asleeve showing a slightly modified 55 means that can easily be applied to any shirt, form of stifiening means provided with waist, gown, or the like. rolled-in or enlarged edges whereby a nar- Another object is to provide means on the row end'of the sleeve may simply be folded sleeves of a waist, shirt, gown and similar upon the stifiening means to be held in posidress of a baby by which an elbow stiffening tion by an elastic band. 6() device may be held in place. Fig. 7 is a midsectional view of a stiffen- Other objects will appear from the following sleeve or cuff of a simple form with va ing description and appended claims as well I'ious perforationsand means thereon where as from the accompanying drawing, .in by this cuft' may be secured to the sleeve which a of a shirt, waist, jacket and the like wearing Fig. 1 is an outline of a baby arm, illustratapparel of a baby. ing merely a sleeve or end at about a position Fig. 8 is a fragmentary midsectional view in suitable relation to the elbow, whereby a of a stiffening means, having merely a cenchild is prevented from bending the elbow tral enlarged bead instead of the additional 25 beyond certain limits while free to play with rolled-in edges. its hand. Fig. 9 is a common so-called baby sup- Fi g. 2 is a fragmentary cross section porter with a safety pin at one end and with a through a shirt sleeve folded upon itself with clinch attachment at the other end, whereby the termination of the sleeve touching the up ny plece of wearing material can be pinned per part of the sleeve so that it may be fash r plece of wearing material, and toned to the sleeve with a stiffening means whereby the Sfifienmg mean? can be Secured disposed in the folded portion of the'sleeve. to common Sleeve i i 1; pp for Fig. 3 is a perspective illustration of a lite l f tlejacket, or waist with somewhat abnormally a f g g fi gross .i tt so long sleeves, having also shown buttons, holes {L S miff an tg j i g and strips, and having dotted lines indicated mem B1 In s 1 y m0 1 e lawn:

on the leeves above which the ends of the an elastic band inserted through slots or a perforations with a slip en a ement of comsleeves may be folded back, so that the tenni- 1mm garters and similar g g 40 nating front edges of the sleeves may be fas- Fim 11 is a fragmentary illustration of a tened to incase a stiffening means according 5 Sleeve fi the lower end drawn in t0 the illustratiOn 0f gby lacing or binding, having the stiffener Fin. 4 is a fragmentary cross section inserted within the garment sleeve and held through a sleeve with an incased stiffening in position by the contracted sleeve, the

45 means, the sleeve having perforations sleeve being tied or contracted narrower than the diameter of the inserted stiffener so as to prevent a falling out of the stiffener from the sleeve when so inserted.

Fig. 12 is a fragmentary illustration of a garment sleeve, being provided with a slit, having buttons and short bands provided near the slit edges by which the lower termination of this slightly modified sleeve can be contracted so as to hold an inserted stiifcner within the sleeve.

Babies quite generally have to be trained against biting their nails, or sucking their fingers, or picking at sores, ears, eyes, or nose, or, in contagious diseases, to prevent them from touching eruptions.

Babies also have the habit of carrying their toys and other articles to their face,or mouth, or eyes. The device of this present application is principallytherefore to help a mother in properly training a baby.

As illustrated in F ig. 1 a stiffening means is best applied right above the elbow of a baby. In this illustration no shirt sleeve has been shown .or inany way indicated, but, as a rule, a baby is dressed with some material embodying-sleeves, and it is therefore a simple matter to apply the stiffening means to the sleeve of such a garment. The illustration of Fig. 1 is merely to indicate the proper position of the stiffening means, whereby it may be explained that the baby cannot bend its arm beyond a certain extent so as to prevent it from reaching any pointfor which the mother has certain objects in mind to be accomplished, whether this is the face or-any other part of the body.

At thesame time it is clear that the'baby is absolutely free to play to its hearts-content and has full use of its hands and, as a rule, will never even realize that it is hampered in the movements of its arms many way, or manner.

I am aware that means have been provided to be applied over the hands of a baby which, however, seem cruel inasmuch as the baby cannot use the hands and still is able to reach its face with such a protection incasing the hands.

The principal feature of this invention is therefore to eliminate any-discomfort while at the same time controlling the movements of the arms of the baby.

The stiffeningmeans is therefore advantageously used in'connection with the sleeve of agarment whether thegarment consists of a waist, shirt, gown, ,or jacket, or merely sleeves with the tiniest piece of shoulder connection.

In such-a combination the sleeve is provided with means whereby the stiffening means can easily be secured or firmly held on the sleeve; and the stiffening means are provided with means whereby such an interconnection is facilitated.

The little jacket shown in 3 illustrates strips secured to the upper part of the sleeves 11. The sleeves are somewhat abnor mally long to be folded at a point where the dotted line 12 has been indicated, so that the terminations or ends 13 of the sleeves may be brought to points near the strips 10. The lower end of the sleeve is in this manner folded upon the upper portions of the sleeves, and the strips 14 may be used to tie the terminations of the sleeves to the strips 10. Snap buttons or other buttons are provided as indicated at 15, and perforations or holes are provided as indicated at 16. The snap buttons may simply be used to connect certain portions of the sleeves while the perforations are used for inserting a lace, or a strip,

or a ribbon, whereby the end of a sleeve may be laced to the upper portion of the sleeves.

In Fig. 2, for instance, a sleeve portion is indicated at 11, with the lower sleeve portion 11 folded upon the main portion and the edge 13 brought close to the upper portion of the sleeve 11,.

A stiffening cuff or member 17 is illustrated disposed in the fold of this sleeve. The edge of the sleeve may be secured to the upper portion at 18 as will easily be understood from the above and following specification.

In the slightly modified form of Fig. 4 a strip or lace 19 has been passed through perforations 16 illustrating also the stiffener in .this fold.

In the slightly modified form of Fig. 5 the stiffener 17 is disposed over the outside of the sleeve 11.7, and the strip 19 is passed through the perforations 16,, whereby the stiffener is held in position on the sleeve 11.,.

Inthe slightly modified form of Fig. tithe stiffener 17 is illustrated with enlarged .or

rolled-in edges 20, facilitating a firm holding by the mere application of an elastic band 21 over a narrow rolled-in edge 13,, of the sleeve 11;, In the illustration of Fig. (5 astiffener is shown in which various forms of means have been embodied, whereby the stiffener can be firmly applied to as'leeve'by various means or fastenings. This stiffener 17,, is provided with rolled-inedges besides an enlarged central'bead 21. The whole length of the stiffener is provided with numerous perforations 22, first, to provide n'ieans whereby laces and the like may be slipped through the stiffener to be applied to asieeve in a mannerdescribed above, and,

secondly, to reduce the weightof this stiffener to a minimum.

Other perforations-23 have been provided to facilitate the application. of other fastening means as, forinstance. a. common support of the type illustrated in 9. The buttonwire fastener QL QScan bepassed-through these perforations 23 while the safetypin ismerely pinned to asleeve in-about a position illustrated in Fig. 5.

Another slightly modified form of stiffener is illustrated in Fig. 8. This stiffener l'T 'has merely a central enlarged bead 21 Without any rolled-in edges whereby a shirt-sleeve may be engaged in the manner illustrated in Fig. 6 in conjunction with an elastic band, or a support of the type illustrated in Fig. 9 may be passed through any of the perforations, or a ribbon or lace may be passed through any of the perforations whereby the stiffener may be secured to a sleeve.

This device is simple to use, absolutely sanitary, without any rivets, or bolts to break, and nothing to hurt the baby, or to hold germs. It can be Washed and cleaned as well as a garment and, if desired, can be inserted, or stitched, or strapped, or clamped, or fastened to the sleeve of a garment as described above.

The stiffener can be made of cardboard, or any other similar suitable material, as of metal.

A child is thereby prevented from finger sucking, nail biting, picking at sores, ears, eyes, nose and in contagious diseases from touching eruptions or any part of the body.

This device makes also for better and deeper breathing inasmuch as the shoulders cannot be doubled up, or the arms folded or crossed far enough to prevent perfect breathing, while still allowing all necessary freedom of movements of the arms.

N 0 toys, pins, paper, or other articles can be carried to the month, while the hands may be used in a quite normal way otherwise.

The sleeves or any garment with the sleeves can, of course, easily be cleaned and washed since the stiffener is absolutely detachable and easily separated from the sleeve.

Several attaching and securing means have been illustrated especially in Fig. 3 on one and the same garment, but it must be understood that I do not limit myself to any specific arrangement and that any one alone or all of the several attachments, like buttons, perforations and ribbons, may be used together on one and the same garment.

The garment supporter illustrated in Fig. 9 is of the special type used in connection with baby garments with a short strip 27, having the safety pin 25 secured to the one end 26 of the strip 27 and having the button 24 at the opposite end while the wire clip 28 is swingably connected at a distance away from the button end so that, after having a piece of garment placed over the button 24, the wire clip may be clinched over the garment and over the button to hold the garment in place on the button in the common manner in which a garter is used.

The slightly modified form in Fig. 10 is a sim plified modification of the garter support of Fig. 9, having a flexible strip 27 inserted through the perforations 29 in the garment sleeve 11 and having this strip also passed through the perforations 22 of the stiffen-er 17. The wire clip 28 can then simply he slipped or secured over the button 24... This strip 27 with the buttons 24. and Wire clip 2.8 can easily be exchanged, inserted, or removed, and neither the garment nor the stiffener needs any attachment or attaching with one another.

The slightly modified form illustrated in Fig. 11 shows a stiffener 17 inserted into the inside of the sleeve 11 the lower end 32 of the sleeve 11 is gathered or drawn in as indicated at 33 by a ribbon or other tying means 3 whereby the stiffener 17 is securely held within the sleeve and therefore prevented from falling out of the lower end. The stiffener can easily be inserted from the lower end without having to remove the garment and after having the stiffener inserted, the lower edge of the sleeve is merely drawn in, or gathered as illustrated.

In the slightly modified form of Fig. 12, the sleeve 11. is provided with a slit 35, near the lower edges of which tying means 36 and buttons, or other fastening means 37 are provided, whereby the edges along the slits 35 can be drawn together sufficiently to hold the stiffener 17 properly within the sleeve 11..

From the above it will be clear that the stiffener may be placed within or over the sleeve, this being an important feature of this invention, having the sleeve designed so that it will hold a stiffener in a position at about the elbow.

It must, furthermore, be kept in mind that the width of the stiffener has less influence on the restricting of movements than the length of the stifiner, which will be understoodfrom the illustration in Fig. 1. If the stiffener is long enough, the one end of the stiffener simply will abut against the shoulder of a baby while the other end of the stiffener will be in a position that a baby cannot reach any closer to its face or body than the length of the stiffener allows. Of course, the stiffener may be made in various sizes in regard to length or width to fit different arms. even the arm of an adult person as in a nervous case in a hospital or at home, being merely in form of a harmless reminder not to make a certain movement, for instance such as rubbing the nose or reaching frequently to the face or other parts of the body, instead of requiring a straight-j acket sometimes necessitated in serious cases of this nature.

Having thus described my invention, 1'

claim:

1. In an elbow mitt, a sleeve of a garment, and a stiffener adapted to he slipped over said sleeve, the sleeve being provided with means whereby the lower portion of the sleeve may be folded upon the upper portion of the sleeve to be fastened to the sleeve over the stiffener.

2. In an elbow mitt, a stiffener, and a garment sleeve of a length whereby the lower- -eaeeee termination:- c'an-befolded upon the mainportionof the sleeve and; including fastening means; at points near' the lower edge of the sleeve and at points above theupper portion of the sleeve to allow a fastening of. the lower edge of the sleeve when folded uponthe upper portion of the sleeve andv adapted to. enclose the stiffener when so folded and fastenecl.

In. testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name.

ADELE HORVITZ. 

